About Empathy
Empathy is a fast-growing, venture-backed company revolutionizing the way the world copes with loss. With strong support from top-tier investors, we are scaling rapidly and expanding our reach to help more people navigate one of life's most challenging moments.
Our team is passionate, empathetic, and dedicated to providing world-class solutions to families in need. We work collaboratively to identify pain points and design elegant solutions that empower and support our users.
We seek a Communications Manager to join our Tel Aviv office, playing a pivotal role in shaping and conveying our mission to diverse audiences.
In this role you will
- External Communications Ownership: Lead the execution of Empathy's external communications strategy, identifying and leveraging company milestones and industry trends to drive media engagement in collaboration with marketing and company leadership.
- Content Creation: Craft compelling content across various platforms, including press releases, blog posts, and external communications, ensuring consistency in messaging and tone.
- Media Coordination: Assist in media outreach and relationship-building efforts with journalists and industry publications, working closely with external PR support to enhance Empathy's visibility. Additionally, support awards submissions, strategic speaking engagement proposals, and maintaining media lists.
- Timely Engagement: Monitor industry news and relevant conversations to identify opportunities for Empathy to contribute, ensuring proactive and timely responses to media inquiries.
- Internal Communication & Reporting: Facilitate ongoing communication and collaboration with internal stakeholders, ensuring messaging alignment across teams. Develop frameworks for tracking and reporting communication initiatives to demonstrate impact, gather insights, and drive continuous improvement.
- Manage Multiple Workstreams: Handle ambiguity and prioritize multiple, often time-sensitive workstreams simultaneously, ensuring that deadlines are met and initiatives are executed effectively.
Requirements
- Experience: 5+ years of proven experience in a communications role, preferably within a tech company, startup, or PR agency.
- Skills: Exceptional writing and editing skills in English; proficiency in Hebrew is a plus.
- Media Awareness: Understanding of media relations and ability to coordinate with external PR support to maximize exposure.
- Attention to Detail: Exceptional attention to detail, ensuring flawless execution of communications materials and alignment across channels.
- Strategic Thinker: Ability to develop and execute communication strategies that drive business goals.
- Team Player & Leadership Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across departments and work closely with leadership to align on narratives and communication strategies and drive organizational goals.
- External Relationship Management: Comfort with managing external relationships, including with partners and clients, to leverage these connections for driving media reach and engagement in PR and communications efforts. – preferred
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At Empathy, we believe that our workforce should reflect the range and variety of the families we serve. We are an equal opportunity employer, where all employment decisions are made without regard to age, sex, race, ethnicity, nationality or nation of origin, religion, ability, medical condition, marital status, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by local, state, or federal law.